Nutritionist Reveals 3 Surprising Foods She Ate to Lose 15 Pounds (Including Dessert for Dinner)

You can eat delicious food and still lose weight, according to an expert. You can even eat dessert for dinner! Morgan Self is a fitness and lifestyle coach who helps people achieve their weight loss goals and "live" their "life in a body" they "love." In a new social media post, she discusses what she eats in a day when she wants to lose weight. "I've lost 15lbs in the last couple of months, and this is an example of what a day of eating looks like for me," she says. She goes on to share her exact food log" from the day.

You Don't Have to Cut Out Foods You Love to Lose Weight

"Losing fat sucks if you cut out all the foods you love, so I don't. Understanding how your body and nutrition works will help you realize that you truly can have your cake and eat it too," she adds in the post. "Losing fat doesn't mean that you have to cut out foods you enjoy. It just means you need to be more intentional about how much of ANY food you are putting into your body."

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Breakfast: Spinach & Cheese Microwave Scramble

She starts with her go-to breakfast, a scramble she makes in the microwave with spinach and cheese.  The ingredients are:

• 1 egg
• 185g eggwhites
• Handful baby spinach
• 28g reduced-fat shredded cheese

Lunch: Creamy Chicken Taco Pasta

For lunch, she has a creamy chicken taco pasta made with regular pasta. Here are the ingredients:

• 4oz air fried chicken tenders
• 1 serving of angel hair pasta
• 1/2c cottage cheese blended until smooth w/ 2T taco seasoning
• 28g reduced-fat shredded cheese

Snack: Peanut Butter Drops

For a protein-packed snack, she eats peanut butter – only she freezes it to make peanut butter drops. She uses 32g peanut butter "frozen into little pieces," she explains. "Omg! Why have I never thought about peanut butter drops!" one of her followers commented.

Dinner: Cotton Candy Protein Icecream Creami

For dinner, she eats dessert! She takes one scoop of Cotton Candy protein (@cleansimpleeats brand) and adds 10 oz vanilla Carbmaster milk and ten white fudge-covered pretzels. "I can definitely get on board with a cream for dinner," one of her followers commented.

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This Totals 140 Grams of Protein

"This has me eating 140g of protein a day, so I'm not hungry," she says. "I'm satisfying any cravings I have by just… eating them within my macro targets." Why should you focus on eating enough protein? According to clinical trials, consuming more protein than the recommended dietary allowance not only reduces body weight (BW) but also enhances body composition by decreasing fat mass while preserving fat-free mass (FFM) in both low-calorie and standard-calorie diets.

Keep Food Simple

In another post, she reveals a few things that are keeping you from achieving weight loss success. The first, "That is really a waste of your brain space when trying to lose weight," she says, starting with healthy recipes. "I used to spend So much time trying to find 'healthy' recipes, going to the store for the weird ingredients it called for, making the recipe, and then figuring out how to track it in my macros. Waste. Now I just use simple foods that take me <15min to put together and are easy to track and be consistent with, even when I'm busy," she writes.

Focus on How Much You Eat, Not What

She also notes that oftentimes, it's not what you are eating but how much of it. "There are also no certain foods that will help you lose fat and tone up. When I stopped focusing on which foods and started focusing on how much, that's when I got lean," she explains.

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Stop Trying to Be Perfect

She also stresses the importance of progress over perfection. "I used to be either all in or all out. That made me continuously lose my results and start over. I had to make a drastic mindset shift. I couldn't keep thinking of my fitness as a "program" I needed to stick to, but a lifestyle that I'd need to change and develop new habits. Now free meals are in the plan, and I enjoy cookouts and going out to eat, and never feel like I'm starting over," she explains. And if you enjoyed this article, take advantage of these 15 Quick Ways to Lose Body Fat Percentage in a Week.